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INFANT MORTALITY.
For the fourth year in succession, the district can record
a very favourable infant death rate. Thirty-nine deaths of
infants under one year took place, which gives a mortality
rate of 39 per thousand live births, the same figure as for the
year before. The corresponding rate for the country as a
whole was 53.
Of the 39 deaths, 23 were males and 16 females. Five
were illegitimate children.
Neo-natal deaths, i.e. those occurring within four weeks
of birth, at 22, represent 58% of the whole.
There were no infant deaths under one year of age due
to the commoner infectious diseases. Rather more than half
(54%) were due to the diseases peculiar to early infancy,
prematurity, malformations, marasmus, etc. whilst injury at
birth accounted for 5.